Birds of Southern Cameroon. 523 
above, whitish horn-coloured beneath, the feet brown. The 
immature bird has pale yellowish-brown tips to the wing- 
coverts. 
These birds, obtained at widely different places in 
Southern Cameroon, agree so perfectly with the description 
of Du Chaillu’s bird collected more than fifty years ago that 
the suggestion of Dr. Sharpe that they were the same seems 
to me to be little short of certainty. I have been led to place 
the bird in Alseonax not only by its appearance, but by 
what I have been told by my hunter of the habits of one 
that was shot; the light-tipped wing-coverts go to strengthen 
this opinion. 
Parisoma plumbeum. 
Reich. Y. A. iii. p. 521. 
No. 3985. J breeding. Bitye, Oct. 1909. 
No. 4115. $ nearly ready to lay. Bitye, Feb. 1910. 
Iris brown; bill black, grey beneath ; feet grey. 
The order of the birds in Reichenow’s ' Vogel Afrikas ’ is 
only here departed from because of the manifest resem¬ 
blance of Parisoma to the Flycatchers, rather than to the 
Tits. 
Parisoma. holospodium. 
Bates, Bull. B. O. C. xxv. p. 27. 
Nos. 3138, $, Nov.; 3690, 3696, J, May; 4013, 
Nov.; 4221, <J, June. All collected at Bitye. 
Pedilorhynciius comitatus. [Kula ] (Plate IX. figs. 13 
& 17, eggs.) 
Peditorhynchus camerunensis Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 624 ; 
1907, p. 447; Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 30. 
Alseonax comitatus Grant, Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. p. 392. 
The fact that nestlings and immature birds of this species 
have no light spots on the wing-coverts or other parts 
of the plumage makes one suspect that its real affinities, 
in spite of appearances, are rather with Trochocercus and 
other genera than with Alseonax ; hence I keep it in the 
separate genus made for it by Reichenow. The plumage of 
